You
are able to see the quality of my writing improving over the course of this
trimester because it is so much more substantial. My vocabulary has improved
over time as well as my textual evidence I include in my blog posts. (Textual
evidence in yellow and vocabulary in green.) When you add textual evidence to
your writing, especially when you are showing someone something or trying to
prove a point, it makes it sound more believable and will probably persuade the
person into thinking the way that you do. Oppose to, like in my first post, no
textual evidence you are just telling the audience something and not giving
them any reason as to why you think this may be the best book and they have
nothing to go by. Another key aspect is vocabulary. Your vocabulary makes you
sound more reliable, like you know what you’re talking about. In my first post,
I have barely any good vocabulary except for the word ‘lurking’ maybe. But in
my more recent post I used the word dialect. Which is a literary device as
well. But instead of putting this person has a way of talking, I said dialect.
One
thing I struggled with was figuring out what to blog about. One week I will
have a great, significant blog and it has so many good qualities and the next
week, since I used up all of my ideas, I give a less qualified post. I tried to
overcome this by reading more often and trying not to use up all of my thoughts
at once and posting various posts about each. A strength I had while posting
was the privilege of reading a good book. If you aren’t reading a book you
enjoy, then your posts won’t be very well written as well because you won’t be
interested in your topic either. I did meet my reading goal, even further than
I wanted to! My goal was to read 3 books by the end of 2013, and I am on my
fourth book. I mostly used goodreads.com for keeping track of how many books I’ve
read. I think I have improved a lot as a reader throughout the trimester,
especially when we were learning how to read from the Elizabethan era.
Recently,we finished Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. In the end we discuss is it specifically anyone's fault? If anyone was to blame, I think anyone could be blamed. Here's my opinion,
It is said that Friar Laurence could be to blame for Romeo and Juliet;s death. For one, he was the one who came up with the idea that Juliet pretend to be dead then never tell Romeo that she's not actually dead causing Romeo to kill himself then Juliet do the same. Also, he was the one to marry them without consent of parents. So Juliet's parents insisted she marry Paris when she was already married to Romeo.
Also, another person that could be to blame is the apothecary. He was very poor and therefore that was the only reason he sold Romeo the poison, for the money. Even though if he hadn't sold Romeo the poison, he still could've commited suicide.
Juliet's Nurse is also to blame because as the same as Friar Laurence, she also didn't tell her parents that she was getting married. She knew and never told anyone.
The last few people that could be to blame is The Capulets and The Montagues. Both of their parents are in a mutual feud with one another. If they wouldn't have been fighting, that would've allowed Romeo and Juliet to get married and be happy together without trying to hide it from their parents.
The main character in Looking for Alaska by John Green is Miles "Pudge" Halter and from the very beginning he mentions The Great Perhaps.Francios Rabelais was a poet and his last words before he dies were 'Igo to seek a Great Perhaps.'. And Pudge really wants to find his Great Perhaps before he dies. And he continues to say "I thought of the Great Perhaps and the things that might happen and the people I might meet and who my roomate might be..." (Green. 8) and "...I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation." (Green. 9) Personally, I think that what Miles is searching for is not something you can search for but something that finds you. And, that he may have found it in Alaska. And finally he realizes it, "...For she had embodied the Great Perhaps-- she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps... You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth." Also I think this sentence implies that somehow The Great Perhaps and The labyrinth were related in a way. Miles found his Great Perhaps in Alaska and Alaska found her way out of the labyrinth maybe because of Miles.
I love The Hunger Games series so much. And on November 22, Catching Fire comes out. The book is all about the 75th hunger games, also known as The Quarter Quell. Every 25 years the Capitol holds an unique hunger games and the third is as unique as it has gotten. The Capitol chooses one boy and one girl victor from past hunger games from each district. In district 12, they only have 3 victors.Haymitch, Peeta, and Katniss. Originally Katniss and Haymitch get chosen but Peeta volunteers for Haymitch. But Katniss realizes she can't let the hunger games go on any longer. People from other districts are starting to rebel. I'm skipping a lot of parts in the book (basically the whole middle) and going to the end. *SPOILER* Katniss has gone through manny struggles and is on the brink of dying. She only has a few minutes of life left and she has to think of a way to break the force field. She uses her bow and arrow and shoots at the force field and the whole thing shatters upon her. Later we find out that there were two air crafts one belonging to "the good guys" and the other belongs to the Capitol. The Capitol gets Peeta and the other has Katniss and Finnick and the other still living tributes along with gale. And some of the last words of the book were spoken by gale "Katniss, there is no District 12."
I'm just really hoping the book and the movie match up well. I know the first movie was as spot on possible. Here's the final official trailer for The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire.
In class, we have been reading Romeo and Juliet and debating whether it was a comedy or tragedy. Before reading this I would have said it was definitely a tragedy. All I knew was that they fall in love but it was forbidden so they killed themselves. Tragedy, right? Well we looked into it farther...
Yes, whenever a character dies it is most likely a tragedy. But the parts leading up to it is what we're looking at. First of all, just the fact that they have known each other for a matter of a few hours is reason enough. They cannot be truly in love. Which leads us to think it is more lust than love. Instantly, when Romeo lays eyes on Juliet he completely forgets about Rosalin and switches love interests. I think that is when Romeo feels he is in love. He has not said a word to Juliet, yet he knows that is what love is. The same with Juliet during the balcony scene, act 2 scene 2. When he breaks into the Capulet's garden to see Juliet, instead of being a little creeped out like most would be, she is delighted! She declares her love for him even though she has said practically nothing to him and she wants to get married tomorrow. I think this may be a wanting to disobey her parents in a way as well as lust. Either way, I think this part is mostly comedy because in a way I think the play may be mocking teenage love and there is no way someone can fall in love that quickly.
In the book Looking for Alaska, you notice patterns and one of them is Alaska Young constantly asking 'How do I get out of this labyrinth?'. Well, we find ourselves asking what this means. The chapters are labeled 'eighty four days before' and up to 'the day before'. The whole time you are left guessing what is it counting down to? That's one of the ways the book pulls you in. *SPOILER ALERT* But we find out that this actually leads to Alaska getting into a car accident and dying. Back to the big question though. How do you get out of the labyrinth? Well one theory Miles (Pudge) and Chip (the Colonel) have is suicide. They seem to think that Alaska, although highly intoxicated, drove off campus and purposefully killed herself, although they say it was unintentional. They also think that killing herself was the way out. The way out of all her troubles and worries, and furthermore the labyrinth. They try to figure out if this was her way out by asking the officer that saw the crash, "'I's still in mah cruiser and I seen out the corner a' my eye the headlights, and my lights was on and I turned the siren on, but the lights just kept comin' straight at me, son, and I got out quick and run off and she just barreled inta me. I seen plenty, but I ain't never seen that. She didn't tarn. SHe didn't brake, She jest hit it. I wa'n't more then ten feet from the cruiser when she hit it...'" (Green. 162) We have evidence from the police officer that she didn't hesitate or give it a second thought which lead them to think it was suicide but then there was evidence of it not being suicide, "Warning signs of suicide the COlonel and I found on the Web: Previous suicide attempts, Verbally threatening suicide, Giving away prized posseisions,...Writing, talking, reading, and drawing about death and or depression,...Rcent loss of a friend or family member through death or suicide..." and only two came up as postive out of the many, many signs. So there are mixed to reasoning as to if she did or did not commit suicide. But either way they were still devistated about their friend. Also still questioning whether this was her way of getting out of her labyrinth.
Go to this website for more information on Simón Bolivar: http://www.biography.com/people/simon-bolivar-241196
Go to this website to get more information on what this symbolized and others' perspective on what it means: http://www.theliteraryanalyst.com/code%20/looking-for-alaska-character-analysis-and-the-labyrinth/
In my book that I am currently reading, Looking for Alaska, by John Green, I have noticed a lot of dialect from a couple characters. Dialect is when a character has an accent or a way of talking, it shows up in their dialogue. The first character is Lara. Lara is from Romania and moved to America when she was 12 years old. There is even a part in the book where it explains her accent and what she can and cannot say, "'You don't sound like you have an accent sometimes,' I said, which was pretty stupid, but darn sight better than throwing up on her. 'Eet's only soft i's.' 'No soft i's in Russian?' I asked 'Romania,' she corrected." (Green. 102) This is one example of dialect in John Green's writing. We see more of it as we go on, the Colonel's mom is from the more southern part of Alabama and she says, "'I believe,' Dolores said, 'that yer s'posed to drink white with turkey, but-- now I don't know 'bout y'all-- but I don't s'pose I [care].'" (Green. 93)
I really do like how he adds personal touches to the characters. It adds diversity and gives more information about the characters. Like where they came from or how they might have been raised. Opposed to most authors that don't, we get these characters expeiriences and might even be able to relate to them in a personal way. For example in a part of the story Lara tells us that when she immigrated from Romania, she had to speak for her parents because they didn't knwo any English, and it was a good and bad experience. The good story was, "'Eet's easy. The day I came here. I knew Engleesh and my parents deedn't, and we came off the air plane and my relatives were here, aunts and uncles I had not ever seen, in the airport and my parents were so happy. I was twelve, and I had always been a leetle baby, but that was the first day that my parents needed me and treated me like a grown-up. Because they did not know the language, right? They needed me to order food and to translate tax and immigration forms and everytheeng else, and that was the day they stopped treating me like a keed...'" (Green. 116) But there was a bad side, "'My worst day was prbably the same day as my best. Because I left everytheeng. I mean eet sounds dumb, but my childhood, too, because most twelve-year-olds do not, you know, have to feegure out W-2 forms.'" So from her dialect, we get to knwo her background and her struggles she has had. Her dialect is a key part of her story if she didn't have an accent then we wouldn't have known that she has struggled so much back then.
I never posted a final blog about the last book The Clockwork Princess. *SPOILERS* The last part in the book was about how it was modern times just a few years back from now. Tessa was waiting for Brother Zachariah (Jem) at a bridge in London as they have almost every year since Jem has joined the Brotherhood. But this year was different. When Tessa was waiting, she found herself reminiscing on all the years that have gone by and she was remembering all the amazing years she had with Will. And when he finally retired from being a Shadowhunter. And when he died. Ever since then she has been alone with the occasional comfort from Magnus Bane. She was snapped out of her reverie when she saw Jem walk next to her. It was Jem, not Brother Zachariah and his hair and eyes were darker than she has ever seen. They had finally found a cure for his illness. They got to talking and then Jem brought up how he was still in love with her but then he thought it was stupid of him to say so be ran off and Tessa ran after him. In the end we are left to assume that Tessa and Jem get back together.
Overall I thought that this was a very well written ending to the series and I really enjoyed that she wrote how they eventually got back together again at the end. It was very creative and this is the first time I've seen this type of writing. Through and through this book was fantastic and by far the best book out of the three in the series.
I finally finished The Clockwork Princess and thought it was AWESOME! I have started a new book though, Looking for Alaska by John Green.
My initial impression of John Green from this one and only book I have read of his is he has a really unique style of writing. He uses a lot of figurative language such as "...so I grabbed one of the desk chairs and sat down outside my door in the shade overhanging eaves, waiting for a breeze that never arrived." (pg. 7) This is an example of personification because the breeze doesn't really arrive, but it is given a human action that is not generally given to an inanimate object. Also, I assume he is an amazing writer because a very famous quote by him from The Fault in Our Stars, which I haven't even read but have heard many times is, "That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt." quoted from Augustus Waters. The fact that I haven't even read this book, but I have heard this part so many times must mean something about his writing. He hasn't given much description about the characters looks but he has told us a lot about their personality traits and how they act. The most common way he tells us about their personality is through others words or actions. For example we learn a lot about Alaska by the way The Colonel talks about her here, "So she really likes him? 'I guess. She hasn't cheated on him, which is a first.'" In this passage Miles is asking The Colonel about Alaska and her current boyfriend. You are able to tell his sarcastic tone when he says "...,which is a first." This implies that she has before and is a common thing for her. You learn a lot about The colonel and Alaska in this one sentence. Another unique style of writing in this novel is I noticed he numbers off reasons a lot. I think that is just the character, Miles talking not Green's actual writing style in everybook though. On pages 23, 18, 14 and maybe more pages has numberings on it.
Only a few more weeks until the third book of the Divergent trilogy comes out, Allegiant! Ever since I have read the first pages of Divergent I have been obsessed with this book. There is so much action starting from the very beginning and only ends with even more. This series goes on to become the second book, Insurgent. Also a REALLY good book but I think I like the first book better. We see the book ending with a couple cliff hangers that leave the reader questioning and wanting to read the next book.
First of all in the end of Insurgent, some of the last words are 'Edith Prior'. As you may know Tris' last name is also Prior and we want to know "Who is this women?!" I have a feeling that in the third book Tris will really be questioning who she is and who her family really is as well.
Another big question in Insurgent is 'What is outside of the fence?'. We know that the 5 factions are all contained inside a fence that is set in futuristic Chicago. I don't think anyone has an idea what could be outside the fence. Is it more people? Or is it nothing? Is it just a lot of land that has nothing filling it?
You will have to find all of these questions out when you read Allegiant by Veronica Roth. It comes out October 22, 2013.
This is the official Teaser Trailer for Divergent movie coming out in 2014. I think the director did an AMAZING job from what I've seen so far. And I think they did an awesome job on casting everyone. I definitely expect a lot from this movie.
I am almost finished with the third, and final book of The Infernal Devices series, The Clockwork Princess. If you are planning on maybe reading this book I suggest you stop here because there will be many spoilers in the next paragraph...
As I have said in previous posts, we know that Jem has asked the members of the London Institute, who are also like family to him, to stop searching for a cure for his illness. Jem's condition has worsened and has minimal yin fen (the drug he has to take to stay alive) left because Mortmain has bought all of it and prevented all new shipments to come in with anymore. Once everybody stops searching, Jem dies and the Silent Brothers come in to take him away. While this is all happening, Tessa was captured by Mortmain and no one knows where she has been taken. But Will might have a clue. There has been multiple times when a hint of Mortmain's where-abouts are. Cadair Idris. In Wales. Will is confronted with the problem of not leaving Jem's side or finding Tessa. Jem eventually tells Will to go and find her and so when Jem dies, Will is out on a long journey to Cadair Idris. One morning while Will was having breakfast at an inn, Will has this agonzing pain above his heart. Where his parabatai rune is inscribed. Jem has died. Will goes through so many different emotions while on his way to find Tessa. Eventually Will finds where Mortmain has Tessa hidden away and goes into the building. He searches the place and sees Tessa and runs toward her. They embrace but then Tessa says to Will that they are both now stuck in an invisble wall all around them and cannot get out. They speak about Jem and what had happened and both of their terrbile journey here. They both find themselves just waiting for Mortmain to see them both here and probably kill Will. Until the members at the Institute find a way to travel instantly to Cadair Idris to aid Will. These people include Henry and Charotte Branwell, the heads of the Institute, Cecily Herondale, Will's younger sister, The Lightwood Brothers, three Silent Brothers, Magnus, a warlock and some Mundanes that are of help to the Institute. Once they reach Cadair they split up to find Will and Tessa. Magnus is the one to find them and since he is a warlock, he is able to break the barrier that holds them there. They get dressed in their Shadowhunter gear and set off to find the others. Suddenly, Will here's a scream of horror. Cecily. The three of them burst into a battle between the Shadowhunters and the automatons. Immediatley Will throws himself into the mess and tells Magnus to watch Tessa, to make sure she doesn't fight. Tessa glances around and sees Henry crumpled on the floor, motionless. And Charlotte trying to comfort her, possibly, dead husband. She takes another look and sees one Silent borther lying dead on the ground. She quickly turns around to watch what is happening and she sees another automaton cease one of the three Silent Brothers by the neck and lift him up, only to see silvery hair and a pale face. Jem.
I've had so many questions along the way through out this book, but my biggest one yet is, How is Jem still alive?! I haven't been able to put this book down yet and hopefully I will finish soon.
One of my favorite authors at the moment is Cassandra Clare. She is the author of The Mortal Instruments series and The Infernal Devices series as well as a couple other series about Shadowhunters which I haven't read but I probably will.
If I had to describe Cassandra's writing in one word it would have to be "description". On every single page of any book she's written, I can say from personal experience, there will be a description. Whether it be a person's eyes or hair, or the way the towers in Alicante, Idris glimmers in the sunlight. I, personally, LOVE description. I like it because you can actually see everything she is saying and picture it in your mind. You will never be hanging onto your own made-up description of what you think Tessa's necklace looks like, or what shade of red Clary's hair is. I don't see too many books out there that have this detailed descriptions in them. Cassandra is certainly a unique writer in that aspect. But also in the stories she comes up with. She came up with a new race of humans that are half human half angel called Shadowhunters. She created a stroy with plot twists at every turn. I think the unpredictability of her stroies are another fantastic reason why she is phenomanal author. No other writer I have read has had this creativity in their books.
This clip is a interview with Cassandra Clare is her speaking about The Mortal Instruments and the movie that recently came out.
I have had a few questions through out my book as I've been reading. This book does have a lot put-it-together type of plots in it. And lots of times, it leaves me asking questions for a little while. But after a few pages, if you don't put it together, right there on the spot, it will give it away. One of my questions is why did Jem discontinue everyone's searching for a cure for his illness? Doesn't he want to get better for the sake of his parabatai? And unfortunately, I have read spoilers in some places so I know a couple things that are going to happen but how?? *SPOILER ALERT* In the part I am at, Jem has just died, leaving Will alone to feel the pain. But I read somewhere that Jem becomes a Silent Brother, who are immortal, and Will ends up dying... And I keep asking myself HOW? If Jem has already died, they cannot get him back! I have never encountered anything like this in any other book, movie, or real life situation. And in that way that makes this book unique which I like.
The theme of Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare would be "Becaureful of who you trust."
This book had a similar theme to Clockwork Angel probably because it's the sequel, but also they are both true. Unlike the last book, they are not taking people in and wondering if they can trust them. They have trusted someone their whole lives and that person decides to change. Jessamine. Jessamine is another Shadowhunter but does not wish to be a Shadowhunter. She wants a normal, mundane life with a mundane husband. Throughout the book we occasionally see Jessamine going out during the night time dressed in men's clothing, which is something you don't see too often in the 1800's when all the girls wear big gowns everywhere. At the time you don't know why or where she is going. But you find out she is having secret meetings with Nate Gray, Tessa's brother who in the earlier book we found out was a spy for Mortmain. When the people at the Institute find this out, it's already too late. Here is a quote to support my theme statement "'He made it very clear that you have been spying for Mortmain,' said Tessa, wishing that Sophie and Charlotte would return. What on earth was taking them so long? 'That you have betrayed us, reporting on all our activities, carrying out Mortmain's commands--'" (pg. 226, Clockwork Prince) This quote supports my theme statement because they thought because Jessamine had lived at the Institute for such a long time, they thought she loved them and would never do something so awful as to spy on them.
I finally finished Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare on Sunday night and I thought that I might do a summary on it now that I have read it all the way through.
Clockwork Prince was set in a time period of the mid 1800's. Considering this time period the main character, Tessa, has a few more struggles than she would have today. In the beginning The Branwells ran the London Institute and nobody questioned wether they were fit for the job. But as time goes on, we find out she has had a spy for The Magister living under her roof, twice! This spy was first Nate Gray, Tessa's brother. This happened in the first book. But now her second is Jessamine Lovelace.Jessamine has been at the Institute since she was a little girl. She has always disliked being a shadowhunter, but has had to live with the "burden", all though most people wouldn't call it a burden, for her whole life. She has always wanted a mundane, or human, husband. And it just so happens that Nate is as mundane as they come, and his looks don't hurt either.They find this out because the houses maid, Sophie, found an invitation from Nate to go to a ball and while Jessamine is sleeping, Tessa Changes into Jessamine using her powers as a warlock so they think. Tessa goes to the masquerade ball with Will to ask Nate questions about Mortmain under Jessamine's name. While there they find out a few more things than they thought they would. Jessamine and Nate are married. Gabriel Lightwood has a relationship with a demon which is illegal, and has a purpose later in the story. And that tessa and Will both drink warlock powder which lowers their inhabitions. Later while they are leaving Will finds the demon that put a curse on him when he was 12 years old and chaces hime down. The whole time everyone at the Institute thought they were one step ahead in finding The Magister who you find out is Axel Mortmain. But as it turns out Jessamine is telling Nate, who then passes on the information to Mortmain, all of their plans and locations. When the Branwells find out that Jessamine has been spying on them they put her under The Mortal Sword which forces all of the shadowhunters to tell the truth when held. Jessamine tells Charlotte Branwell evrything she knows and has told Nate until they find out that Mortmain has put a block of sorts on Jessamine's mind to make sure she does not tell The Clave, the community of all of the shadowhunters in London, where he is. I left off a few minor details so I don't ruin the whole story. But after that Jessamine gets put in the cells of The City of Bones, deep,deep underground. The Institute is almost out of time to find Mortmain or else Gabriel Lightwood will get it, which is a terrible thing because we also find out that Mortmain needs medicine for his illness, demon pox, and it just so happens that Mortmain has that medicine and to get it Gabriel has to acquire the institute and the Mortmain will have the Shadowhunter community dead. With all of this going on, Tessa finds herself choosing between 2 boys, Will and Jem. Will and Jem are both in love with Tessa and Tessa finds herself caring for both of them. Towards the end, skipping a lot of information about what happens, Jem proposes to Tessa. In the Shadow World, it is normal to get married at a very young age because they don't know how long they will be around. I really recommend this book and find out what happens inbetween the gaps in my summary!
Based on some textual evidence from Clockwork Angel and Clockwork Prince both by Cassandra Clare, I would characterize Will Herondale as careless. At first he acts as though he doesn't care what other people think or what people do to him. But as the story progresses we see Will changing as well.
Here is an example, from a part where Will was very down and went to a factory which they produce drugs that are highly addictive and dangerous and is an example of Will's carelessness. To understand how this is especially careless, you will need background information. A while back Jem's, Will's parabatai, or blood brother, parents got murdered and Jem got kidnapped by a demon. The demon each day slowly injected him with a drug called yin fen. When Jem was rescued he was sent to the London Institute at a very young age. Because he has had so much of this drug he is unable to withdrawal because it will kill him and there is no cure that has been found.He will be able to live longer by taking certain amounts of this drug each day depending on what he is doing. To fight it would take more. The drug is slowly killing him everyday and is a very sensative topic. The quote is, "Lying in the bunk was Will, half-tangled in a dark, ragged blanket. He wore nothing but trousers and a shirt; his weapons belt hung on a nail peg inside the bunk. His feet were bare, his eyes half-lidded, their blue only slightly visible beneath the fringe of his dark lashes. His hair was wet with sweat, pated to his forehead, his cheeks bright red and feverish. His chest rose and fell raggedly, as if he were having trouble drawing breath." (Clockwork Prince, 143-144) This excerpt shows Will's carelessness because he obviously didn't think before he went to the drug factory and took the same drug that is killing his best friend, Jem. Will is hurting the ones he loves without knowing. He doesn't seem to care that he is hurting Jem, and this is an important part of the plot.
An example of Will caring is when he realized that Jem was hurt by Will's actions. He didn't directly mean to harm Jem in any way. Jem was Will's parabatai, which means they are sworn together by oath. They both swore to protect each other even if it means their own life. This is Will apologizing to Jem, "'I...' He swallowed, looking for the words. It had been so long since he had searched for words that would earn him forgiveness and not hatred, so long since he had sought to present himself in anything but the worst light, that he wondered for a panicked moment if it were even something he was still able to do." (Clockwork Prince, 183-184) This quote shows how Will actually does care because he is earching so hard for the words to apologize to Jem, someone he loves. And he is actually questioning himself and wondering if he can find the words to apologize after not wanting people to like him for so long. Which later on in the book will be explained why he does not want people to like him.
I know this is a wiki website, but I think this "blog" is well written and has a lot of good points. If you're intersted in more about Will click on this link above.
A text to film connection I have made is Clockwork Angel/ Clockwork Prince/ Clockwork Princess's character Will Herondale who I connected to Forrest Gump's Jenny Curran. In the books I have already proven my point as to why I think Will is careless. As to why I think Jenny is careless is for a long time Jenny was Forrest's best friend who would do anything for him. As the movie goes on, Jenny gets older and changes and grows away from Forrest. But Forrest has not grown away from Jenny. Throughout the movie Jenny continues to question herself and who she is and doesn't care if she hurts Forrest through her actions like when she agreed to stay with Forrest but then after a while they got too close and Jenny up and went. I think Jenny and Will have a lot in common. Because in the end they really do care about whoever they harmed and they didn't want or mean to.
Forrest asks Jenny for marriage but she thinks he deserves someone better. He thinks that she refused because he is not smart so he simply tells her "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."
Since I haven't finished Clockwork Prince, I thought I would analyze the theme of Clockwork Angel, the prequel.
The theme of Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare is "Trust". I say this because in this book Tessa, the main character, has to figure out who she can trust. In the beginning, she thought the only person she had that she thought she could trust was her brother, Nate Gray. Nate is the only family she has left after her Aunt Harriet died. She gets kidnapped by two warlocks, The Dark Sisters. They intially say her brother told them to pick her up from the dock, but once she gets back to where she'll be living for a while, they say they have held Nate captive as their prisoner. They won't hurt them if she does everything they tell her to. She goes through everything for him because she doesn't want them to hurt her brother. When they finally say they will be taking her to "The Magister". She has no idea who he is, or where her brother is. Right before she is about to be taken to The Magister, a Shadowhunter, named Will, rescues her and they escape The Dark Sisters' house. Eventually, Tessa is back with Will at the London Institute. Along with a few other fellow Shadowhunters. Tessa has to learn that she can trust Shadowhunters but can she trust anyone else?
I have been reading The Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. I finished her first series, all five books, The Mortal Instruments and LOVED them. I thought that I might like other books by her. The Mortal Instruments series is about a fictional race of people called Shadowhunters. They protect their city by fighting demons and other things that might be lurking.
In The Clowckwork Prince it has the same theory. Shadowhunters fighting demons and maybe the occasional automaton. But the twist with this series, it takes place in the 1800's. The main character, Tessa Gray, finds out she's something that she didn't think she was. They are constantly put in danger by the main antagonist, The Magister and maybe a few other things. Tessa, being a lady in the 1800's is also torn with being a lady, or being a warrior. I HIGHLY recomend these books, as well as The Mortal Instruments series, which is coming out wiht the 6th and final book in 2014.
One of the complex characters that we are able to see develping in the course of the text, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, is Campbell Alexander. Campbell is at first a very private, arrogant character. He doesn't get very close to anyone. In the story he is Anna's lawyer. Ever since he had an experience right before his highschool graduation, he hasnt told anyone that he is epileptic, and that's why he has a service dog. he makes up sarcastic excuses when people ask and not until the end does he tell anyone why he has his dog. Campbell goes from being extremley closed to opening up with Anna because of the experiences they have shared together. In the begining he would have never shared that information with anyone, but he develops during the story.
Eventually, all of the characters start to interact with each other and they all come together for a reason. Anna is the reason they all meet up. Anna has her Lawyer, Campbell, and her guardian ad litem, Julia meet, but not for the first time, because they team up to help Anna in her case. Her case is against her parents, Sara and Brian, and in a way also her sister Kate. And her brother, Jessie, is somewhat impartial. They all come together to help, or go against, Anna in her trial.
Without even one of the characters, the plot wouldn't advance in the same way. If Anna weren't there, the plot wouldn't even exist because there wouldn't be a conflict. Without Kate, Anna wouldn't have a case, a lawyer, or a reason to want to be medically emancipated. Without Sara or Brian, there would be no one to rebel against for Anna. If Campbell wasn't there, Anna would either have a different lawyer, or no lawyer at all and probably wouldn't have won her case. So without some of the characters, the story wouldn't have much conflict or a very exciting plot.
This article is the author, Jodi Picoult, talking about her book, and some of the characters. My Sister's Keeper Article
